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Stargazers across the globe are counting down the hours to Sunday’s big show in the sky.<\/p>\n

The so-called hybrid<\/a> solar eclipse early Sunday will dazzle everyone from amateur astronomers to full-time astrophysicists as the moon passes between the earth and the sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Folks in Florida can catch a glimpse \u2014 though not the full show \u2014 if they get up early and face the east before sunrise.<\/div>\n
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Coastal viewers in Florida should be in position for sunrise at 6:36 a.m. (That’s after you set your clocks back for the end of daylight savings.)<\/p>\n

Never look directly at the sun. Use No. 14 welder’s goggles. Or look through telescopes or binoculars fitted with the proper safety filters.<\/p>\n

Forget sunglasses. “They are worthless,” said Daniel Britt, a University of Central Florida professor and a member of the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n

“The best approach is two pieces of paper,” Britt said. “One with a pin-hole and use that to project an image of the Sun onto the other piece of paper.”<\/p>\n

Only those live viewers in central Africa and on a narrow path in the Atlantic Ocean will see a total eclipse.<\/p>\n

Only about 60 percent of the sun will be covered for Orlando-area stargazers, appearing as if the sun had a bite taken out of it.<\/p>\n

“The event will be visible at dawn on Sunday and will last for about one and a half hours,” said John Small of Rockledge, president of the Brevard Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n

The weather should cooperate. Mostly clear skies<\/a> are expected with a temperature of 61 degrees at sunrise.<\/p>\n

Beachgoers on the east coast of the Sunshine State will get the best live views in Florida.<\/p>\n

“It will only be a partial eclipse from here in Orlando<\/a>, but that could be quite a dramatic view at sunrise, weather permitting, of course,” said Josh Colwell, a planetary scientist and professor of physics at UCF.<\/p>\n

“Viewers will want a clear view of the Eastern horizon,” he added. “The beach is an obvious scenic spot.”<\/p>\n

Slooh.com will live stream the total solar eclipse from telescopes in Africa.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s display is called a hybrid because it has characteristics of a total eclipse \u2014 when the moon covers the sun \u2014 and a annular eclipse, when a bright halo of sunlight<\/a> remains visible around the edge of the moon, according to CBS.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NASA says this hybrid is uncommon because it begins annular and ends total.<\/div>\n
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Most hybrids<\/a> begin annular, change midway to total and revert back to annular at the end of the path, NASA said.<\/p>\n

The Mint news website said the last hybrid solar eclipse was in April 2005. The next one is set for 2023.<\/p>\n

The path of the moon’s shadow will begin about 620 miles east of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

It will span 8,540 miles before leaving earth’s surface in Somalia, where a 1-second-long total eclipse will occur at sunset.<\/p>\n

Hybrid eclipses are rare.<\/p>\n

Less than 5 percent of the 11,898 solar eclipses recorded and predicted between 1999 B.C. and 3000 A.D. are hybrids, Universe Today is reporting<\/p>\n

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Original article available here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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